Many (not all) in UPPER managment are SO political and unqualified it is impossible to get anything substantial done unless you spend all day ego stroking and handing over credit for every thing you do to your boss. Those that do that, are the ones that stay in the same role for 10+years and are total company loyalists but are making a fraction of $ that others in their field are earning. Zero sensitivity to employees that are trying to advance, move into different depts. The tend to hold people back as much as possible, especially if you are making them (upper mngmnt) look good-they do not want to lose the valuable people. They hired so many upper mngmnt that were laid off First Data people and they added so many ridiculous processes on top of processes and then they hired all their own mngrs and got together like a new firewall so that no one that was NON FIRST DATA had any chance of moving up. Really sad because prior to all the changes it was a great, productive, career nurturing place to work. Also the pay in OMAHA office is horrible for Mngmnt level. WAY below industry standards-and WAY less than San Jose people doing the same or similar roles. I made 85k more income the FIRST year after I left PayPal! They need to tap into the existing talent pool that they have instead of letting valuable people go, and keeping the people that have been there 10 years and have no other career experience to bring to the role.
